| Summary: |
The present agreement aims at developing a comparative approach to the underground music scenes in Portugal and Brazil, while articulating the paradigms of sociology and communication. The project includes two goals: deepening the knowledge of underground music scenes and their potential in terms of creativity, employability and DIY; and grasping the importance of social networks - online and offline - to the artistic and musical processes. Building upon the scientific kinship and research experience of both teams, the project looks - via comparative approaches as well as conceptual and methodological sharing - for the theoretic -empirical synergies susceptible of propelling the Luso-Brazilian scientific agenda. More broadly, emphasis will be put on reconsidering the dominant paradigms of the Anglo-Saxon kind commonly deployed in addressing music scenes, thus promoting the constitution of theoretical-analytical models better suited to the sociocultural realities of Brazil and Portugal. |